Quotes about flower
flower winning names
Among the flowers no perfume is like mine; That which is best in me comes from within. So those in this world who would rise and shine Should seek internal excellence to win. And though 'tis true that falsehood and despair Meet in my name, yet bear it still in mind That where they meet they perish. All is fair When they are gone and nought remains behind. Charles Godfrey Leland
flower men thorns
Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns? Charles Fourier
flower gay onions
New rule: Tulips aren't flowers. They're some kind of gay onion. Bill Maher
flower language afterthought
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought. Bernard Malamud
flower very-romantic shops
I'm very romantic. I've emptied flower shops. Bob Hoskins
flower bees saffron
never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty. Edna O'Brien
flower smell rose
Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell. Edna St. Vincent Millay
flower heart eye
But far, oh, far as passionate eye can reach, And long, ah, long as rapturous eye can cling, The world is mine: blue hill, still silver lake, Broad field, bright flower, and the long white road A gateless garden, and an open path: My feet to follow, and my heart to hold.
flower cups april
Life in itself / Is nothing, / An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. / It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, / April / Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
flower cities names
Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness, their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle. Edgar Quinet
flower men garden
The man who wants a garden fair, or small or very big, With flowers growing here and there, Must bend his back and dig. The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've got to work to gain. It matters not what goal you seek, It's secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses. Edgar Guest
flower angel writing
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. Benjamin Franklin
flower one-day grows
Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all. Arthur Golden
flower plant embellishment
We have much to hope from the flowers. Arthur Conan Doyle
flower life-is-like goats
This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more flower. Anton Chekhov
flower important sound
A need to concentrate on each sound, so that every blade of grass would be as important as a flower. Arvo Part
flower eye hair
She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims... Arundhati Roy
flower land political
My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there. Ariel Sharon
flower political born
I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers.
flower heart may
Surely, no one hoped for so many things. Hold the flowers close to your heart; they may someday bloom. Ayumi Hamasaki
flower single-rose want
If you want to say it with flowers, remember that a single rose screams in your face: 'I'm cheap!' Delta Burke
flower heaven looks
The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment. William Shakespeare
flower fall rose
The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.
flower rose youth
He wears the rose Of youth upon him.
flower eye purple
Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye.
flower rose four
Their lips were four red roses on a stalk.
flower world pleasure
These flowers are like the pleasures of the world.
flower sea stronger
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But bad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
flower thinking rose
Of all the flowers, me thinks a rose is best.
flower fall tree
(...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree. Alexandre Dumas
flower tree forsake
It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
flower home animal
What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life I must be quite certain that it is necessary. I must never go beyond the unavoidable, not even in apparently insignificant things. The farmer who has mowed down a thousand flowers in his meadow in order to feed his cows must be careful on his way home not to strike the head off a single flower by the side of the road in idle amusement, for he thereby infringes on the law of life without being under the pressure of necessity. Albert Schweitzer
flower alive if-you-like-me
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive. Brian Clough